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10 Oct 2022

Oncogenic virus: Scientists show how HPV causes skin cancer

Viruses are thought to play a role in the development of about 10 percent of human cancers. An international research team led by scientists in Vienna...
10 Oct 2022

Genomics and artificial intelligence to empower cancer diagnostics

The lab of Anna Obenauf just published their findings: the human papillomavirus HPV42 causes Digital Papillary Adenocarcinoma. Within the frame of...
06 Oct 2022

Rabitsch Award 2022 for Melanie de Almeida

Established in 2006, the Kirsten Peter Rabitsch Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievements to a PhD student at the IMP or...
01 Oct 2022

A September to remember: unprecedented wave of IMP publications

One month, eight publications – the IMP is riding a wave of discovery into autumn. We look back on the studies that were published in September 2022...
30 Sep 2022

International Birnstiel Award 2022: Six brilliant young scientists selected

In its fourth year, the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences left all turbulences of the pandemic behind and...
29 Sep 2022

Embryonic development: the Toddler mystery solved

As an embryo develops, its cells migrate to the appropriate location as they turn into new cell types. During her postdoctoral work, Andrea Pauli had...
23 Sep 2022

IMP student identifies new drivers of plasmablast development

How do the cells that defend us against pathogens develop? Theresa Pinter, PhD student in the lab of Meinrad Busslinger, investigates the molecules...
22 Sep 2022

2022 SCP & APMRS Best Presentation Award for Rupert Mayer

The Single Cell Proteomics & Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Research Symposium 2022 took place at the IMP this year. Among junior speakers,...
20 Sep 2022

Life Science Research Award for Bernardo Almeida

The Austrian Society for Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT) recognises the outstanding work of young scientists with the annual Life...
19 Sep 2022

Altering DNA packaging to regulate gene transcription

Oliver Hendy, a PhD student in the lab of Alex Stark, is in the last stages of his doctoral studies. For his thesis, he studied how a group of...